I am farming in the real world

Chapter 84: Tragedy After Exultation (Bonus Chapter for Every 200 Average Subscriptions)

Facing the camera for the interview, the middle-aged man, who was just immersed in the delight of Chen's new product, immediately snapped back to reality.

He wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, his old face reddening with a hint of embarrassment, and said, "Sorry, sorry! This mung bean smoothie is just too delicious; I couldn't control my emotions for a moment."

"Sir, you look like a man with a story! Can you describe to everyone what this new product tastes like?" Seeing this, Lin Leqian acted as if she had caught a breaking news story, almost shoving the microphone into the old man's mouth.

The customers queuing behind them also craned their necks, eager to watch the interview and join in the gossip.

Seeing so many eyes fixed on him, the middle-aged man raised the enamel mug and began to speak slowly and deliberately, "People of our age, their families were particularly poor when we were young. Our parents had several siblings, and they usually didn't have money to buy snacks. During summer vacation, we would be sent to the countryside to stay with the elderly at home."

"This Chen's mung bean smoothie is ice-cold and sweet, refreshing the heart after just one taste. Although you can't taste any sugar, the texture is really top-notch! It has a sweet aftertaste that quenches your thirst, with a flavor reminiscent of the mung bean soup my late grandmother used to make."

"The more I eat, the more I want to go back to when I was young!"

Listening to the old man's on-site evaluation, the onlookers were in an uproar.

A mung bean smoothie so delicious that it made people want to cry—how much of a memory could that evoke?

Especially since the weather outside was hot, the morning sun making people feel parched.

After the middle-aged man's description, many people couldn't help but purse their lips, just like the 'plum-quenches-thirst' story.

Before even tasting the flavor, it had already stirred up the hunger pangs in many people's stomachs.

Including Lin Leqian, a loyal fan of Chen's!

She even wanted to end the interview early so she could quickly line up at the back of the queue.

After all, as soon as Chen's second branch in Ruixian opened, a line of four or five hundred people had already stretched along Binjiang Avenue.

Passing taxi and bus drivers even rolled down their windows, looking in surprise at the usually deserted Bund and discussing with the passengers on board, "What kind of store opened here?"

"Why is there such a long line!"

"It seems to be called Chen's, which is very popular in Wenshi!"

Those regular customers who originally planned to buy the secret roasted chicken and leave also temporarily changed their minds after hearing the middle-aged man's review, ordering the newly launched 'Grandma's/Grandmother's' taste of summer from the cashier.

It wasn't until the mung bean and red bean flavored smoothies appeared in front of everyone that they realized that Chen's newly listed menu items were originally cold drinks designed for the dog days of summer.

After more people tasted these two smoothies, the icy, sweet, and refreshing ancient flavor that made people want to cry spread from the front of the line to the back.

Especially those middle-aged men in their forties and fifties, after tasting this flavor, whether they were sentimental or not, couldn't help but wipe away the tears from the corners of their eyes.

The younger ones didn't know what the ancient flavor was, but after queuing up to buy this 28 yuan cup of mung bean smoothie to try it out, they all frantically gave it a thumbs up, took photos, and checked in.

As the line slowly moved forward, Zheng Bocheng, leading his wife and children, returned to the opposite side of the road where his buddies were gathered, holding several enamel mugs and shouting, "Chen Jue! What kind of crazy stuff did you add to this mung bean smoothie?"

"How can it make people cry? Tell me, what's the secret recipe!"

Seeing this, Chen Jue explained with a bit of a wry smile, "There's no crazy stuff! It's just because the ice cubes inside are frozen enough that they stimulate the tear ducts in the nasal cavity! It's the same principle as eating mustard or cutting onions and tearing up!"

Hearing this unreliable explanation, the buddies all showed expressions of 'I don't believe you, you must have a secret recipe,' and then divided the enamel mugs and started crazily devouring them under the sun.

...

As Chen's several branches spread throughout the urban and suburban areas of Wenshi, the newly launched mung bean/red bean smoothies, due to the continuous fermentation of word-of-mouth, began to sweep the local internet like the secret roasted chicken that had become popular throughout Wenshi.

In particular, the ingenious retro enamel mug became the object of countless socialites and young people taking photos and checking in.

Holding a retro enamel mug and taking a check-in photo aimed at the 'Chen's' signboard became a trend in the local young people's circle of friends.

Because compared to the expensive roasted chicken, the price of this 28 yuan cup of mung bean smoothie was really a bit 'affordable'.

What's more, this thing is not limited in sales, and each store supplies several large buckets every day until they are sold out.

In order to highlight that his products were not an 'IQ tax,' Chen Jue also specially instructed Chen's employees to display the high-end boutique beans purchased from the supermarket in the store's display window as a raw material display, so that customers could buy with confidence and eat with peace of mind.

This approach, like the previous live broadcast of the ecological chicken farm, was unanimously praised by customers.

As a result, the sales of this new product were booming, and its launch ignited the enthusiasm of diners.

It also brought a wave of different refreshing coolness to the hot summer in Wenshi.

...

That night, Chen Jue, who had finished working on the opening of Chen's second branch in Ruixian.

After having dinner with Zheng Bocheng and a group of buddies, and briefly treating the store employees to a celebratory late-night snack, he took a car back to the Cube Factory overnight.

After several centipede transport ships had been tirelessly cultivating for several days, more than half of the soybeans in the Chen Village planting base had entered the mature harvesting stage.

Looking at the patches of yellow soybean plants, Chen Jue no longer used manpower to do mechanical harvesting as usual.

Instead, he took out [Bucket] x N, padded a few blocks of rock at the corners of the planting base, poured water on it, and a visible blue water wave rushed towards the entire MC farmland.

The sound of "biu ~ biu ~" of seeds exploding continued to sound.

Wherever the water flowed, the mature soybean plants all shattered, and then followed the water flow to the center of the base to gather.

This way of pouring 'infinite water' to harvest crops using the characteristics of water flow is a very normal operation in MC, which can save players a lot of time.

So Chen Jue climbed up and down on each layer of farmland, using this clever method to quickly harvest so many soybeans that he could hardly fit them in.

Even his MC character level, stimulated by the massive green experience particles brought by farming, unknowingly leveled up to Lv13.

"I'm two MC diamonds away from getting an enchanting table."

"By then, these experience points can also be used!" Chen Jue muttered to himself upon seeing this.

He put all the collected soybeans into [Boxes], and then used minecarts to transport them to the Cube Factory, along with 10,000 tons of soybeans, all loaded into the cargo hold of Iron Man No. 001.

Taking advantage of the night to declare the route, Chen Jue sent more than a dozen iron golems with sailor skins, letting them drive this 10,000-ton bulk carrier all the way north.

First go to the Port of Glarovka in the Khasan District of Greater Russia to run the route, to avoid being found by the Maritime Safety Administration that the ship's sailing track does not match in the future.

Although it seems redundant, in order to cover up the soybeans produced by MC, it doesn't matter to run more than 4,000 kilometers back and forth from Rizhao Port to the Port of Glarovka.

In front of Chen Jue's modified lithium electric piston engine, this distance is at most the power consumed by a few tons of diesel.

Waiting to take the customs clearance procedures sent by Alexei, Iron Man No. 001 successfully berthed in Rizhao Port on a certain night afterwards.

Afterwards, all kinds of small and medium-sized bosses gathered at the pier under the call of Lao Shang, vying to place orders for these MC soybeans labeled with Maozi origin.

After listening to the dog-headed strategist's WeChat video report on his recent success in Rizhao, Chen Jue couldn't help but sigh, "This treacherous businessman villager! He has almost played a flower out of a soybean business!"

Just as he was thinking about how to reasonably spend more than 50 million on the Red Star Trade account, an emergency call came in.

Picking it up and taking a look, his cousin Li Fei shouted anxiously on the phone, "Cousin! Something big happened! Someone reported online, filming a video saying that Chen's roasted chicken and cold drinks used illegal addictive ingredients!"

"Now the Food Safety Department and the Consumers Association are making a surprise inspection of our company, and they will also go to the factory and the breeding farm to sample later!"

Bonus chapter is here~